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Ribbon cutting celebrates new Edward Jones office in Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 16, 2020 - 1:24pm

Ryan DeMarco, his wife, Alicia, and their three children Hannah, Noah and Micah, cut the ribbon to Bluffton's newest Main Street business, an Edward Jones office at 111 N. Main St. The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce held the ribbon event during the business open house on Friday.

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Coronavirus vaccine underway

Posted by LizGH on February 16, 2020 - 6:00am

Note: this article is provided by Ohio Northern University's HealthWise Pharmacy.
As the coronavirus outbreak continues, at least one company has said it is working on a vaccine.

Johnson & Johnson announced that Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies (a J&J subsidiary) has started to develop a vaccine against 2019-nCoV, the virus behind the outbreak that started in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, last month.

The company said it plans to use the same technologies as other vaccines for Ebola, Zika and RSV.

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Electrophysiology lab opens at Mercy Health - St. Rita’s Medical Center

Posted by Icon K on February 16, 2020 - 6:00am

Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center has added a new tool to expand the treatment of heart disease with the opening of a new Electrophysiology Lab.

Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center was the first area hospital to perform minimally invasive transaortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures in 2018.

With the addition of the new lab – dedicated primarily to electrophysiology (EP) procedures – St. Rita’s team providers have the ability to perform EP procedures five days a week.

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BVHS Partners to construct new senior development

Posted by Icon K on February 15, 2020 - 6:00am

Blanchard Valley Health System (BVHS) will be working in conjunction with Pennrose Holdings, LLC, to construct EasternWoods Senior, a 50-unit residential development. The future site of the expansion will be located at 0 Birchaven Lane, Findlay.

EasternWoods Senior will be a 51,000 square foot building, containing independent living, accessible housing units for seniors age 55 and older. The development will sit adjacent to the existing Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) on the campus of Birchaven Village.

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Weekend doctor: Rotator cuff tears

Posted by LizGH on February 15, 2020 - 6:00am

By Stanislaw Dajczak, MD
Blanchard Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine
A rotator cuff is a group of four muscles that help move the shoulder. These muscles are deep and attach at the upper part of the arm. Deep muscles attach to the bones around the ball-and-socket joint by a thick, non-elastic tissue called a tendon. These tendons can tear by an acute injury or degeneration over time and can occur in any of the four tendons. Rotator cuff arthropathy is defined as arthritis as the result of tearing these rotator cuff tendons.

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Blanchard Valley Health System
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Let's talk Bluffton for a moment

The good, the bad, the hopes, the threats
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 14, 2020 - 3:26pm

By Fred Steiner 
An opinion
The story above links to a survey about Bluffton and Allen County. The Icon answered the survey and our responses follow. We encourage other viewers to take the survey. Or click here.

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